Thursday, January 22, 2015

"For
Bradford, Patrick Henry was the age's greatest prophet of political
decentralization. An opponent of ratification, Henry strongly advised
his fellow Southerners not to make a political alliance with gnostic New
Englanders. Patrick Henry was the true spokesman of the American
Revolution, the electrifying orator who energized the resistance to the
Stamp Act and other regressions by King George III.

Henry viewed the
Revolutionary War as a matter of self-defense and self-preservation;
simply the right of the colonies to have self-government. As Russell
Kirk noted, the war did not represent a 'revolution made' but one
prevented. The real revolutionary was King George III and his attempts
to deny the colonies liberties they had long enjoyed under English law.
Henry, however, feared the Federalists' constitution would upend the
gains of the war. Their document would lead to the 'divinization of the
state' with 'men living for government" and government itself 'existing
for the sake of ideology alone.'

A 'remote, arbitrary, potentially
unfriendly' government might take hold. Patrick Henry's America,
Bradford observed, did not 'exist to pursue certain military, economic,
moral or philosophical objectives.' Rather, it was comprised of people
'living privately in communities, within the ambit of family and
friends; living under the eye of God out of the memory of their kind.'
While Dickinson recoiled at the 'horror of a government forever
performing experiments,' Henry held the same feelings for a 'totally
poltiicized world.'"

"This entity we call government consumed 43% of all economic activity within the United States of America as of 2009. The labor market participation rate is less than 60%, and the state's relationship to the economy is increasingly parasitic. Its economic and political reports, news and forecasts are suspect, and the truth value always severely lacking, as it engages in propaganda. In every meaningful sense it's a government analogous to that described in the Declaration of Independence, which has "sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance."

Today the law is used as a weapon against dissidents who face selective persecution / prosecution for holding to the wrong ideas, or dissenting against the status quo. The tax man is a common weapon against targeted individuals. As the Roman historian Tacitus declared, "The more corrupt the state the more numerous the laws." Statistically the odds of violating any number of arbitrary rules / regulations remains a reality as Harvey Silvergate manifest in Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent (Encounter Books, 2011).

The biggest rhetorical defenders Constitution of the U.S. in American legislatures are typically among the greatest enemies of a Constitution of limited authority and power as crafted by the framers and understood by the ratifiers circa 1787-1790. Making government 'sanctified' and preserving the myth that we live in continuity to the Founders' government is the ideological means of forging the chains of tyranny over Americans. We live in the wake of what Aristotle would characterize as 'a revolution within forms' where we have the shell of a constitutional republic, but the practical substance of autocracy and elite rule."

Saturday morning, we gathered at Stonewall Jackson cemetery for a
memorial service for General Jackson. Once again, God smiled on the
Confederates gathered to honor Lee & Jackson with beautiful
weather sunny, breezy, and temperatures near 50 degrees! A large
crowd was on hand for the service, and those in attendance paid respects
to the General through prayer, singing hymns, and laying memorial
wreaths.

Immediately following the service, we formed up for a parade through
Lexington. Our unit was led by Generals Lee and Jackson, a Flagger
color guard, and followed by the largest group of flaggers we have ever
had attend the event including SCV, UDC, OCR and Mechanized Cavalry
members from across the Commonwealth and the country! It seemed to us
that there were about twice as many folks gathered to watch the parade
as there had been last year as well. It was truly a glorious site, to
see the parade stretched down main street, and the street filled with
flags and supporters of Confederate heritage. Along the route, we sang
Dixie, handed out stick flags, and received the support and well wishes
of all who had gathered.

Swain, who opposes burqas and advocates stronger efforts at
assimilation for American Muslims, argued that radical Islam “poses an
absolute danger to us and our children unless it is monitored better
than it has been under the Obama administration.”

In response, Muslim students, led by Vanderbilt undergraduate Farishtay Yamin, took great offense.

The Kremlin, according to Barack Obama, is stuck in the "old ways,"
trapped in Cold War or even 19th century mindsets. But look closer at
the Kremlin’s actions during the crisis in Ukraine and you begin to see a
very 21st century mentality, manipulating transnational financial
interconnections, spinning global media, and reconfiguring geo-political
alliances. Could it be that the West is the one caught up in the "old
ways," while the Kremlin is the geopolitical avant-garde, informed by a dark, subversive reading of globalization?

The VSN is confident that the port of Mariupol will fall in the next few
days. Repeatedly, the DNR leadership staked its claim to Mariupol, and
now its sending troops there again. In the last 24 hours, clashes
intensified near the city…. a key port and railway junction, a major
motorway crossing point, along with being a major industrial centre.

Last year, during the counteroffensive, the VSN didn’t capture the city
more for political and not military reasons… the advance to Mariupol
halted because of orders from the political leadership, not due to the
resistance offered by the so-called “National Guard”. The authorities
ordered a halt, despite the fact that control of Mariupol virtually
opens a direct route to the Crimea… the only major town between Mariupol
and the Crimea, Berdyansk, lacks any significant geographical advantage
for a defender.

After being given an opportunity to address the families of two
murdered white teens, one of the black killers instead mockingly used
the occasion to “apologize” for the deaths of Aiyanna Jones, Michael
Brown, and Eric Garner during his sentencing hearing on Wednesday.

Fredrick Young, 25, and Felando Hunter, 23, were found guilty of
robbing, torturing, and killing 18-year-old Jacob Kudla and 17-year-old
Jourdan Bobbish in 2012, starting a “two-week rash of violence and
killings that involved a total of seven men,” as reported at mLive. According to MyFoxDetroit, it all started when Young and Hunter “visited an uncle’s house, then went to a gas station looking to buy drugs.”

An
MIT professor of meteorology is dismissing global-warming alarmists as a
discredited “cult” whose members are becoming more hysterical as
emerging evidence continues to contradict their beliefs.

During an appearance on this writer’s radio show Monday, MIT
Professor emeritus Richard Lindzen discussed the religious nature of the
movement.

“As with any cult, once the mythology of the cult begins falling
apart, instead of saying, oh, we were wrong, they get more and more
fanatical. I think that’s what’s happening here. Think about it,” he
said. “You’ve led an unpleasant life, you haven’t led a very virtuous
life, but now you’re told, you get absolution if you watch your carbon
footprint. It’s salvation!”

This woman, whose story of economic recovery was showcased by Obama on
last night's State of the Union show, is a former Democratic campaign
staffer and has been used by Obama for political events in the past. It
was a total fraudulent presentation.

"Unmentioned in the White House bio of Erler is that she is a former
Democratic campaign operative, working as a field organizer for Sen.
Patty Murray (D., Wash.). This also wasn’t the first time the White
House used the former Democratic campaign staffer as a political prop.
Obama spent a 'day in the life' of Erler in June so that he could have
'an opportunity to communicate directly with the people he’s working for
every day.'"

It does appear so when you pause and go, but it seems something must have triggered the black Police officer's firing. Difficult to tell in the video.

With the dashboard camera in their cruiser rolling, police pulled a
Jaguar over for running a stop sign on a dark night. But things suddenly
turned tense when one of the officers warned his partner that he could
see a gun in the glove compartment.

Screaming over and over "Don't you f---ing move!" and "Show me your
hands!" at the man in the passenger seat, the officer reached into the
car and appeared to remove a silver handgun.

Then, the passenger, despite being warned repeatedly not to move,
stepped out of the Jaguar, his hands raised about shoulder level.

In a preamble to January 22’s Forty-First annual March for Life in
Washington DC, pro-life leader and National Clergy Council president
Reverend Rob Schenck stressed that supporting gun control is part of
being pro-life.

It’s time for the pro-life movement and lovers of life
everywhere to expand our vision of the sanctity of human life. It’s past
time to defend the full spectrum of life, from the tiny unnamed
pre-born in the womb, to an oversized Michael Brown, to a New York cop
doing his duty, to any young black male who strays into the path of an
armed vigilante with a concealed carry permit.

Sigh. I have just read that a young woman named Sage Santangelo
has failed the infantry-trainimg course for Marine officers at
Quantico, bringing the rate of female failure to 29 out of 29. As an old
hand with thirty years covering the military, I can attest that this vu is getting more deja all the time.

Women have never succeeded at physical things in the military becauese they can't. More on that in a moment.
Santangelo seems a most impressive woman. Any woman who would
attempt the TBE course is necessarily impressive. We are not talking
pampered Swarthmore brats in Women' Studies. She reports making her
first solo lfight at fifteen, climbing most of Colorado's highest peaks,
playing goalie on a boy's hockey team. She is Marine material, and has
my respect.

But she washed out on day one. Even tough, fiercely
determined, highly athletic women can't do it. It isn't their fault. We
are born with the equipment we are born with.

American gun enthusiasts will soon be able to purchase AK-47s with a twist: They'll be made in the United States.

Because of the sanctions the United States placed on Russia in the wake
of that country's actions in Crimea and the Ukraine last year, AK-47s
may no longer be purchased direct from the company that makes them,
Kalashnikov Concern.

According to CNN, a gun importer in Pennsylvania has therefore decided to start making its own AK-47s under the Kalashnikov brand.

The Senate on Wednesday voted that “climate change is real and is not
a hoax” as Democrats used the Keystone XL pipeline debate to force
votes on the politically charged issue ahead of the 2016 elections.

The
“hoax” amendment to the pipeline bill from Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse
(D-R.I.) passed 98-1, with only Mississippi Sen. Roger Wicker, the
chairman of the Senate Republican campaign arm, voting “no.”

SHOT Show can be crazy and hectic. It is loud and crowded with
everyone clamoring to get a look at the latest and greatest our industry
has to offer. Today while I was fighting through the crowds on the way
to an meeting, I happened upon a happy surprise. A nice, quiet and not
crowded surprise.

Behind the NRA booth on the main floor is a small exhibit of antique
and unique firearms. The item are taken from the NRA museums. Take a
look at the pictures and if you are at the show be sure to stop in to
check them out. You will enjoy the history and the escape from the
hustle and bustle of the show.

Also, if you are in the area of any of the NRA museums you owe it to
yourself to stop in and check them out. They are in Fairfax, VA,
Springfield, MO and Raton, NM.

Freshman Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) is coming under fire for her failure
to address what many consider to be one of the biggest constitutional
overreaches by a president in U.S. history in her prime time response to
President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday night.

Ernst didn’t mention the fact that Obama just weeks earlier announced
an executive amnesty for millions of illegal aliens that Obama himself
has said at least 22 times over several years he didn’t have the
authority to do. She also didn’t note that, largely because of Obama’s
big government policies, the nation is $18 trillion in debt.

While President Obama defined same-sex marriage as a "civil right" in
his State of the Union Speech, Republican 2016 presidential contenders
are stepping up the pressure on the Supreme Court, which has agreed to
hear a case which could make gay marriage legal in all 50 states.

Conservative Dr. Ben Carson called for Congress to recall any Supreme
Court judge who votes in favor of gay marriage, while former Arkansas
Gov. Mike Huckabee has called on states to not automatically allow gay
marriage if the court rules that it is legal.

The overwhelming majority of Americans remain very uncomfortable about
abortion, with 84 percent wanting it limited to, at most, the first 90
days of pregnancy, according to a new Knights of Columbus-Marist poll.

Almost seven in 10 (69 percent) who identify themselves as "pro-choice" favor this limit on abortion, the survey found.

Remembrance

Winners: Navy Cross Nguyen Van Kiet & MOH Thomas R. Norris This week’s Medal of Honor hero is one of a handful of Navy SEALs awarded the MOH in the Vietnam War. Norris snuck behind enemy lines with a South Vietnamese Navy petty officer rescued two downed pilots in 1972–when most of our resources had been pulled from the country. Interesting to note that later year, Norris was himself rescued by another SEAL Michael E. Thornton.More @ Medal of Honor Roll Call

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.